Drying your hands with paper towel will reduce the bacterial count by 45 - 60% on your hands. However, using a hand dryer will increase the bacteria on your hands by up to 255% because it blows out bacteria already living in the, conveniently, warm moist environment.
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Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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The mile is Latin for 1,000. The number of paces it took the average Roman!
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If you dropped an aerodynamic object (such as a bullet) from the Empire State Building, you could kill someone.
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The first household refrigerators cost about $16,000, in today's money!
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If you get water flowing fast enough, it can cut metal.
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Babies start dreaming even before they're born.
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